Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYWorse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.
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The jealous keys of truth’s eternal doors.
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I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
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See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea – What is all this sweet work worth If thou kiss not me?
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Fate, Time, Occasion, Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
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Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid – in which case all comment is superfluous – or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
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Love’s very pain is sweet.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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